Chapter 18
Change Your View, Change Your Life
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Today's Empowering Quote
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"Should one look through a red glass
at a while lily, he would seem to see a red lily. But there would be
no red lily. So it is with humanity's problems. They consist
of false mental pictures."
--M.D. Garbrick
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Today's Empowering Question
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"Is this problem a problem, or am I
looking at it the wrong way? Is it something better?"
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Today's Fast Session
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Ya know, it's all in how you look at
it.
How many people out there are sick of
hearing that?
Are you usually the one saying it to
people?
Most all "problems" you experience lie
in how you look at things. It makes the difference in
everything you do.
Everything.
You know, when I was growing up and
even well into adulthood, I was rarely happy about anything for
long. It would never last. I always wished I were with a
different group of people...never felt like I said the right things. I always just wanted to be where I was on the way to. The trip was
always dreaded. I wanted to be someone else.
I never felt good enough.
Did you notice that, of all those
things I just mentioned, none of them were "real?" They were all in
my head. Just emotions...
Just emotions? Only thoughts?
Could it be thoughts are real?
Oh, they're as real as the chair you
are sitting in now! I didn't understand that myself for so
long.
And most people go to their graves
NEVER being able to control what they think about and how.
But once I became educated to the
power of thoughts, absolutely everything in my life changed.
My problems weren't problems anymore. They became challenges.
I had heard all that before, as I'm sure you have. But when it
finally sunk in and I saw for myself how our thoughts can make us
and break us, I was never the same.
So everything I did, I did better.
I hope you don't have to go through
what I did before you finally "get it." But the day you do, and I
want THIS day to be a turning point for you... the day you do, the
big weight on your back will shrink to the size of a pea.
Proper perspective is highly
underrated.
Here's something that you can do now,
later today, tomorrow and for the rest of your days.
Whenever you think you have a
"problem," look at it.
Is it a problem or just a challenge? At those times (and "those times" can number in the hundreds each
day) your goal must be to ask yourself this question: Isn't this
just another challenge that I will most certainly meet?
Ask yourself that question constantly.
I say constantly because that's how fast challenges can come
sometimes. Isn't that right?
Like a hail storm.
"Yeah, but you don't understand. This
person in my life, they're the problem! My kids, they're the
problem! It's my landlord. It's my boss. I can't do
anything about it! I can't help it!"
Bull!
And the only time you're going to be
able to change even the most horrible situations, is if you say
"Bull," too. They are challenges. That is what they are.
Just because you don't see it that way
right now, doesn't change the fact that they are challenges. They
are tests... tests for you to pass or fail. If you pass, you get to
grow. If you fail, you get to feel depressed and have more of
the same crap.
That's what life is. And that truth,
that fact, isn't to be despondent about.
It's to look at from all sides with a
clear glass around it so you can see the truth.
There is nothing that can happen to
you that is bigger than you. You can get through anything.
Look at Christopher Reeve, if you need
some real perspective. The guy played Superman! Now he can't move a
single muscle in his body. But he's authored two books and is
giving other people hope that they can overcome their
mostly smaller challenges than his.
(Note: This was originally written in
2003. On October 10, 2004, Christopher Reeve died due to
complications of his paralysis. To donate to The Christopher
Reeve Paralysis Foundation, go to
http://www.christopherreeve.org
)
If you are to live a life of
purpose... If you want to reach some truly amazing goals in life,
you must view your roadblocks for what they are... stepping stones.
And the awareness that when you're starting to get upset about
something, you need perspective - fast!
You don't have to be able to jump over
them. Crawl if you must, but get over them... and move on. To
expect life to be problem free and to put off happiness until it is,
is crazy.
Trust me, I know.
Choose to be happy today. Don't worry
about tomorrow. Prepare for it, but don't obsess. Just
get through today's challenges.
And smile. Things aren't always going
to go the way you want. There most certainly will be periods where
nothing seems to go right.
Accept that as a given.
So when the events don't unfold as you want them to, you'll be able
to think clearly and quickly decide what you should do next without
wasting precious seconds mourning... Because your next
decision could be the very one that takes your "challenge" and turns
it into victory.
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Today's Winning Beliefs
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-- I see today's problems as
challenges
-- I see roadblocks as stepping-stones
-- My challenges help me grow and learn
-- I appreciate my challenges for their value to me
-- I dissolve all problems from my life
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